The 1,000 are those who either obstructed vets in getting the care they needed or falsified or manipulated records and/or waiting lists. Some of those violations are believed to be criminal and they may be charged accordingly.
In addition, SOME of that malfeasance involved failing to staff facilities with necessary MEDICAL personnel but, instead, putting cronies and other NON-MEDICAL folks in sinecures having little or nothing to do with rendering medical care. That is SOP in nearly every government bureaucracy EXCEPT in this instance, some of our vets DIED!
If McDonald is attempting to recruit 28,000 MEDICAL PEOPLE, it’s no wonder the non-medical bureaucrats were covering their asses by cooking the books as the system is impossibly UNDERSTAFFED now.
I’m beginning to believe that it might even be time to consider dismantling the VA system and have our vets on a voucher system to use the nearest suitable community hospital ONCE we rid ourselves of the Obamacare monstrosity now driving thousands of doctors OUT of medicine. And if it hasn’t yet settled in on non vets, that doctor squeeze WILL soon impact you if it hasn’t already.
Something to think about!
I too would like to see the voucher system in place. In my voucher program if a vet had insurance through an employer, the voucher would pick up the difference between insurance and treatment. If the vet had no insurance then it would be full coverage.
But I think it should be for the treatment of military related health problems.